NYPD Caught 'spying'

[sellersm]

http://news.yahoo.com/confused-911-c...084732106.html

Summary:
A building superintendent at an apartment complex just off the Rutgers University campus called the New Brunswick Police 911 line in June 2009. He said his staff had been conducting a routine inspection and came across something suspicious.
"What's suspicious?" the dispatcher asked.
"Suspicious in the sense that the apartment has about — has no furniture except two beds, has no clothing, has New York City Police Department radios."
"Really?" the dispatcher asked, her voice rising with surprise.
The caller, Salil Sheth, had stumbled upon one of the NYPD's biggest secrets: a safe house, a place where undercover officers working well outside the department's jurisdiction could lie low and coordinate surveillance. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the NYPD, with training and guidance from the CIA, has monitored the activities of Muslims in New York and far beyond. Detectives infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and kept tabs on Muslim student groups, including at Rutgers.

[Aloha_Shooter]

... and their problem with NYPD keeping tabs on potential bombers is ?

[TFOGGER]

... and their problem with NYPD keeping tabs on potential bombers is ?

Operating outside their jurisdiction, in another jurisdiction, without the consent or even knowledge, of the local LE agencies, without a warrant, or probable cause to obtain one. Shall I go on? The sheer arrogance of the NYPD's antiterrorism unit is astounding.

[bogie]

Training and guidance from the CIA was when I heard enough. NYPD aught to stay in New York, and the CIA aught to stay the eff out of the states...

[HoneyBadger]

YAY PATRIOT ACT!

[BushMasterBoy]

CIA stands for Caught In the Act?

[sniper7]

it's been reported before and doesn't surprise me one bit.

What blows my mind is the news media outlets calling NYPD right off the bat for their "experts"...who don't know colorado law, who struggle to keep up with their own laws, and who have to catch it from Bloomberg from all angles.

[spqrzilla]

YAY PATRIOT ACT!

This has nothing to do with the PATRIOT Act at all.

[BushMasterBoy]

I give them credit...at least it was in their own state.

[HoneyBadger]

This has nothing to do with the PATRIOT Act at all.

How so? Patriot Act enables the government to spy on Americans. How do you know this apartment wasn't used for "monitoring" upstanding Americans?
http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-vs-const.html

It's not a strong correlation, but these things go hand in hand.